There Stands The Glass, Conor O'Brien
Sunset. Blankets. Holidays. Heartbreak. Conor O'Brien's images are warm like your towel after a swim; silent like eye contact across the room; awkward like your fumbled first kiss.
Been here before? Sure, Sophia Coppola, Stephenie Meyer and even Bonds have been milking the aching beauty and banality of adolescence for years.
By George and Firstdraft Gallery Presents: Downtown
Video Art will appear on the sports screens at the NSW Sports Association Bar. Enormous banners by young artists will be strung from executive blocks. An exhibition of works on cardboard and paper will appear in window boxes along the hidden Little Hunter Lane. A new permanent mural will wind its way along the gutter of Curtin Place.
ECR
Marley Dawson and Christopher Hanrahan, a pair of Sydney-based artists/petrol-heads, have been known to shift their art practice into unfamiliar territory - such as the last demolition derbies at Parramatta City Raceway. But for their new installation/performance work, they've shifted an unfamiliar territory into a contemporary arts venue.
Our Future Was Ours, Darren Sylvester
With titles like ‘If It Hasn't Happened For You', ‘Maybe It Never Will' or ‘Learn To Adjust', ‘Learn To Get Over It', many assume Melbourne photographer Darren Sylvester is drawing on angst or pessimism, but he insists he's just being realistic...
Art people try to say I'm giving some hidden meaning or critique, but my images are straightforward.
China Heights, New Location
China Heights has moved, that's right. No more climbing a gazillion floors for art props. No more Foster Street, it's now about the Crown.
The name China Heights came about when the gallery owners Mark and Ed realised that their gallery overlooked China Town - and was really high up. Geddit? Even though the new China Heights gallery is on Crown Street, the name still rings true.
Bill Viola
I once went to a church in Orange County, California, with a drive-through Sunday service. Here, all the cheeseburger and root-beer-float guzzling folk could get their Communion, hear the day's scripture and make their weekly donations without leaving the SUV. Genius!
In Oz however, we prefer our churches without the drive-through window and occasionally, with video art.
Kids Today
In a way this is the LAWNMOWER MAN of exhibitions only it's a little less scary for 10 year olds. In 2007 Ben Frost and Maddi Boyd gave birth to Stupid Krap, an artist-run online store that has morphed into real life exhibition in conjunction with the Semi-Permanent crew. We can promise some intricate pieces by Anthony Lister as well as some slightly morbid stuff from Xx'zilla.
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